Democrats win redrawn seats despite GOP gerrymandering effort
Efforts to redraw congressional districts in favour of the Republican party failed to yield significant gains.
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Democrats win redrawn seats despite GOP gerrymandering effort
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What this story says
- Democrats won congressional seats in districts that had been redrawn to favour the Republican party.
- Rep. Shomari Figures, a Democrat, won re-election in Alabama's 2nd Congressional District with nearly 54% of the vote.
- Figures stated that the district was redrawn by the Republican-controlled state legislature.
- The national Republican effort to gerrymander congressional districts, initiated by Donald Trump, did not result in substantial wins for the party.
Who covered it
Percentages are shares of the 9 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. Coverage measured .
Trust
42/100
Craft
59/100
Hype
68/100
9 sources · methodology
Thin on the right so far
None of the 9 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.
This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.
Democrats have won congressional seats in districts that were redrawn to be more favourable to the Republican party. In Alabama's 2nd Congressional District, Democratic Representative Shomari Figures secured re-election with nearly 54% of the vote. Figures stated that the district had been redrawn by the Republican-controlled state legislature.
The broader Republican project to gerrymander congressional districts across the country, which was initiated by former President Donald Trump, failed to deliver significant wins for the party. This outcome suggests that the strategy of redrawing districts to gain a partisan advantage was unsuccessful in the 2026 elections.
Coverage comparison
All nine reports analysed focused on the failure of Republican gerrymandering efforts and the success of Democrats in winning seats in redrawn districts. The reports highlighted the re-election of Representative Shomari Figures in Alabama's 2nd Congressional District, noting that the district had been redrawn by the Republican-controlled state legislature to be more GOP-friendly. Figures' victory was presented as a direct challenge to these gerrymandering attempts.
What the coverage left out
No centre- or right-rated outlet ran this story. The left-rated digests did not mention the specific vote count for Representative Shomari Figures beyond stating he won with nearly 54% of the vote, nor did they name his Republican challenger, Rhett Marques, or detail the vote percentage for the challenger.
Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 1 time, most recently on 5 Nov 2026, 23:00, and will add the sides that appear.
How each side covered it
Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.
Left
9 rated outlets
- The left-rated reports led with the headline 'Trump’s gerrymandering push flops as Democrats win redrawn seats' or similar variations. These reports consistently highlighted that the Republican project to gerrymander congressional districts across the country, initiated by President Donald Trump, failed to deliver significant wins for the party. The re-election of Representative Shomari Figures in Alabama's 2nd Congressional District was a key example used across multiple reports, with the digests noting that Republicans had hoped for a concession speech after the district was redrawn to be more GOP-friendly. Figures' victory and his invocation of the Republican gerrymander were also mentioned.
Centre
0 rated outlets
No outlet rated centre has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.
Right
0 rated outlets
No outlet rated right has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.
Questions about this coverage
- How did the left and right cover Democrats win redrawn seats despite GOP gerrymandering effort?
- Of the 9 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 100% are rated left, 0% are rated centre, 0% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
- Is Democrats win redrawn seats despite GOP gerrymandering effort left or right?
- Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 9 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
- Is the coverage of Democrats win redrawn seats despite GOP gerrymandering effort biased?
- Democrats win redrawn seats despite GOP gerrymandering effort is one event reported by 9 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
- Which side is not reporting Democrats win redrawn seats despite GOP gerrymandering effort?
- When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
- Which outlets covered Democrats win redrawn seats despite GOP gerrymandering effort?
- 9 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
- Did Republican gerrymandering efforts succeed in the 2026 elections?
- No, the Republican project to gerrymander congressional districts across the country, initiated by President Donald Trump, failed to deliver significant wins for the party. Democrats won seats in districts that had been redrawn to be more GOP-friendly.
- Who won re-election in Alabama's 2nd Congressional District?
- Representative Shomari Figures, a Democrat, won re-election in Alabama's 2nd Congressional District. He secured nearly 54% of the vote in a district that had been redrawn by the Republican-controlled state legislature.
- Were there any centre or right-rated outlets that covered this story?
- No, none of the centre- or right-rated outlets covered this story. All the reports analysed were from left-rated outlets, indicating a blindspot in coverage from other parts of the political spectrum.
Read it at the source
9 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.
Left
9- Trump’s gerrymandering push flops as Democrats win redrawn seats (opens New Hampshire Bulletin in a new tab)
New Hampshire Bulletin — is New Hampshire Bulletin biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Trump’s gerrymandering push flops as Democrats win redrawn seats (opens Pennsylvania Capital-Star in a new tab)
Pennsylvania Capital-Star — is Pennsylvania Capital-Star biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Trump’s gerrymandering push flops as Democrats win redrawn seats • Maine Morning Star (opens mainemorningstar.com in a new tab)
mainemorningstar.com — is mainemorningstar.com biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Trump’s gerrymandering push flops as Democrats win redrawn seats (opens Kansas Reflector in a new tab)
Kansas Reflector — is Kansas Reflector biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Trump’s gerrymandering push flops as Democrats win redrawn seats (opens Iowa Capital Dispatch in a new tab)
Iowa Capital Dispatch — is Iowa Capital Dispatch biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Trump’s gerrymandering push flops as Democrats win redrawn seats (opens South Dakota Searchlight in a new tab)
South Dakota Searchlight — is South Dakota Searchlight biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Trump’s gerrymandering push flops as Democrats win redrawn seats (opens Wisconsin Examiner in a new tab)
Wisconsin Examiner — is Wisconsin Examiner biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Trump’s gerrymandering push flops as Democrats win redrawn seats (opens Georgia Recorder in a new tab)
Georgia Recorder — is Georgia Recorder biased? Our profile of this outlet
Centre
0No outlet in this group ran the story.
Right
0No outlet in this group ran the story.
Not rated
0No outlet in this group ran the story.
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